different between driven vs striving

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??v?n/
• Rhymes: -?v?n

Verb

driven

1. past participle of drive

Adjective

driven (comparative more driven, superlative most driven)

1. Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
2. (of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Verdin, Virden, verdin

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch dr?van, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dri?v?n/

Verb

driven

1. to drive, to push (forward)
2. to drive (to do something)
3. to do, to perform
4. to float

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: drijven
  • Afrikaans: dryf
  • Papiamentu: drif
• Limburgish: drieve

Further reading

• “driven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “driven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• drifen, drifven

Etymology

From Old English dr?fan, from Proto-West Germanic *dr?ban.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dri?v?n/

Verb

driven

1. to drive

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: drive
• Scots: dryve
• Yola: dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve

References

• “dr?ven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Etymology

past participle of driva.

Adjective

driven (not comparable)

1. driven, operated

Declension

Anagrams

• drivne, indrev, vriden

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Past participle of driv.

Adjective

driven

1. hardworking, diligent, fast, active

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?a?v??/
• Rhymes: -a?v??

Verb

striving

1. present participle of strive

Noun

striving (countable and uncountable, plural strivings)

1. Effort; the act of one who strives.
   • 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

     Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]